Thread: Watch your step!

Originally Posted by Lkconwayguru

If you are fighting snakes that are real and not planted fake ones by your fishing buddies, then it's been warm enuff for the crappie to be looking into the shallow waters for good bedding ground when the water temp is right. Always look forward to when I get to see snakes when I am fishing. Snakes are not all bad, 95% of all snakes experienced while out fishing are generally just water snakes, a lot of people call every snake swimming in or just around water a moccasin, but they are generally just water snakes, not saying that the snake you saw was not a moccasin, just saying most people mis identify snakes.

I think that crappie, bass and even people tend to start looking with the first warm days of the year, I must have misunderstood in the other thread, I thought you were talking about staging before spawning..and spawning in my home lake is still a ways off..IMO

As far as the identity of the snake in question, he was the garden varity water snake, not a cottonmouth, not venomous, but deadly to me, therefore in a act of self defence, I bludgeoned him to death, the moccasin term is, in this neck of the woods, the water snake, the cotton mouth is the one that will swell you up...and we have plenty of that kind also.
That being said, I hope you all catch some crappie today,,and a coffee can full of bigguns..

I hate all snakes

Bofus! I'm better at identifying dead snakes than I am live ones!!!

I saw his flattened body laying by the dock today. Wish I had been there to see you when you saw him. I know how you are about snakes. Xring don't care what its first name is, if it's last name is snake his first name will be Dead. It was as big as a cottonmouth.

Dannnnnng!